by CJ | Aug 28, 2010 | Journal
I’ll start with one of my favorites: Crocodile on a Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters, (c) 1975. The Amelia Peabody mysteries. They’re a hoot. And just to give you the idea that they don’t have to be totally period: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency,...
by CJ | Aug 28, 2010 | Journal
I’ll start with one of my favorites: Crocodile on a Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters, (c) 1975. The Amelia Peabody mysteries. They’re a hoot. And just to give you the idea that they don’t have to be totally period: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency,...
by CJ | Aug 28, 2010 | Journal
Both of us are sore from yardwork. You know we pulled up the lawn, and you’ve seen photos of the water feature in the front over on Jane’s site. Well, facing that we set Jane’s early birthday present, a yard swing, so she can sit in the shade out...
by CJ | Aug 28, 2010 | Journal
Both of us are sore from yardwork. You know we pulled up the lawn, and you’ve seen photos of the water feature in the front over on Jane’s site. Well, facing that we set Jane’s early birthday present, a yard swing, so she can sit in the shade out...
by CJ | Aug 27, 2010 | Journal
Jane and OSG and I…on the littlest dinner cruise boat, the Osprey, in a 40 mph gale with blowing dust. But we love the upper deck…so there we sat, having dinner (the boat was near the hilly shore at that point, which, gave us enough calm to keep the plates...
by CJ | Aug 27, 2010 | Journal
Jane and OSG and I…on the littlest dinner cruise boat, the Osprey, in a 40 mph gale with blowing dust. But we love the upper deck…so there we sat, having dinner (the boat was near the hilly shore at that point, which, gave us enough calm to keep the plates...
by CJ | Aug 27, 2010 | Journal
Greeting me this morning, two Romanian spammers and an utter ripoff in Amazon’s marketplace…where a pretty brazen pirate is offering downloads. I’ve had to ferret Amazon’s addy out of an impenetrable maze…which has cost me an entire hour...
by CJ | Aug 25, 2010 | Journal
This is a process. However, by eliminating the .plmz, she says we are saving 4 meg off the ‘full’ download. We’re amazed. The whole typescript of the novel is 2 meg. How in heck does .plmz multiply it by 2? I’m still doing rolling re-write, and...
by CJ | Aug 25, 2010 | Journal
This is a process. However, by eliminating the .plmz, she says we are saving 4 meg off the ‘full’ download. We’re amazed. The whole typescript of the novel is 2 meg. How in heck does .plmz multiply it by 2? I’m still doing rolling re-write, and...
by CJ | Aug 25, 2010 | Journal
…and recovered some features that had gone dormant when a blank got unchecked. Now if you want to go to one of our other Closed Circle sites, including to the store, you have convenient links over there. Easier still: bookmark us when you arrive, and...
by CJ | Aug 25, 2010 | Journal
…and recovered some features that had gone dormant when a blank got unchecked. Now if you want to go to one of our other Closed Circle sites, including to the store, you have convenient links over there. Easier still: bookmark us when you arrive, and...
by CJ | Aug 24, 2010 | Journal
The book is edited, and in good shape. What comes now is that messy business of composing the ‘mini’ and the ‘full’ downloads, which is close to arcane—not so, since I know what she’s doing, but suffice it to say she’s only...
